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F.C. Craighead (1890-1982) shooting his muzzleloader rifle at "the Lock House" near Washington, DC, 1939. Photo by R.L. Furniss who was on detail there from the Portland, OR, Forest Insect Lab. Craighead succeeded A.D. Hopkins in 1922 as Chief of Forest Insect Investigations, Bur. of Entomology. Craighead's twin sons, Frank and John were prominent wildlife biologists in the Yellowstone area.

I was thirteen when my brother, Bob, came east, visiting the family home in Waverly, NY, en-route to Washington. He was 18 years older and I idolized him. He took me for a hike in the woods. I remember that he carried an unsheathed double bit axe (2-1/2 lbs, 26 inch handle) and he would throw it at stumps as they do in loggers' contests. God, how I wanted to be like him! Well, somehow that has played out. And, in my early career, I did indeed always carry such an axe ... never sheathed (damn thing is a nuisance), even during many days of snowshoeing alone, spotting sugar pines infested with mountain pine beetle on the Sierra N.F. (1952). The trick is to grip the handle up close to the cutting head ... and throw it when falling!

To finish the story ... Bob and Frances were staying in Virginia and invited me and my sister, Jackie, down for a visit. I had always carried the memory of going out by a river where Bob and another man shot a rifle. After Bob's death, I inherited his photos and discovered that I had been there when this photo was taken! -- Malcolm M. Furniss

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